国家一级的反移民情绪和政策以及美国拉丁裔儿童的健康风险
Natalie Slopen1,2, Adriana J Umaña-Taylor3, Jack P Shonkoff1,2,3,4,5
1Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Pediatrics
|August 15, 2023
概括
系统性不平等,包括排斥政策和偏见,与拉丁裔儿童慢性身体和精神健康状况的增加有关. 一个州的更高的不平等水平与这些孩子更大的健康问题有关.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 儿科 儿科 儿科
背景情况:
- 关于系统性不平等如何影响儿童健康的研究有限,特别是在拉丁裔人口中.
- 由排斥性政策和偏见定义的系统性不平等,与儿童健康差异有关的研究不足.
- 这项研究通过检查系统性不平等及其对拉丁裔儿童多种健康问题的影响来解决这一差距.
研究的目的:
- 调查国家层面的系统性不平等与拉丁裔儿童多种健康问题的流行之间的联系.
- 分析国家一级的排斥性政策和偏见态度与儿童健康结果的相关性.
- 提供关于系统性不平等对弱势儿科人口健康影响的证据.
主要方法:
- 利用来自国家儿童健康调查 (2016-2020) 的17855名拉丁裔儿童 (3-17岁) 的数据.
- 开发了国家一级系统不平等的综合测量方法,将政策数据和态度调查结合起来.
- 在三个类别中评估儿童健康问题:常见困难,慢性身体状况和心理健康状况.
主要成果:
- 系统性不平等与1.13增加慢性身体健康状况的几率有关.
- 较高的系统性不平等水平与患有两个或两个以上心理健康状况的几率相比增加了1.24倍.
- 在调整了社会人口统计因素,歧视和收入不平等之后,这些关联仍然很重要.
结论:
- 拉丁裔儿童在系统性不平等较大的州面临更高的慢性身体和心理健康状况的风险.
- 调查结果强调了国家层面的系统性不平等对拉丁裔儿童健康的不利影响.
- 强调需要采取政策来解决系统性不平等问题,以改善儿童健康结果.
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